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Parish History

"DEANE St Mary, a parish, in the union of Bolton-le-Moors, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 1 mile southwest by west of Bolton. It comprises the townships of Farnworth, Heaton, Middle and Over Hulton, and Rumworth, which constitute the district attached to the parish church; and Halliwell, Horwich, Little Hulton, and West Houghton, which are separate chapelries. In the parish are several episcopal chapels, and several dissenting places of worship."[1]

Deane St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire. Little Hulton, Lancashire is a chapelry of Deane. Other places in the parish include: Heaton, Halliwell, Little Hulton (Peel), Rumworth, Over Hulton, Middle Hulton, and Westhoughton.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

Online Records

Deane Parish has parish registers data content available online for its parish registers as well as for its several smaller attached chapelries, at the following web sites and range of years:

Below are some of the Deane Parish registers available at the Family History Lbirary, Salt Lake City and its satellite familysearch centres worldwide:

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Parish registers for Deane, 1636-1890 Microfilm copy of originals are held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England (Manchester Central Library call nos.: L85/1/1/1-2, L85/1/2/1-7, L85/1/3/1-19, L85/1/4/1-9).The following parish registers for Deane Parish (the ancient parish, only) are also on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. These can be ordered for and searched, if desired (see above charts under "Deane Parish" for indexed/online data from these registers) at any one of its satellite familysearch centres worldwide:

Lancshire Online Parish Clerks

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 306925.

Poor Law Unions

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.